Quotes About Control

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

Histories are instruments of oppression.

Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don't punish me for saying it. I think you know you're cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don't want to run errands for someone cruel.

After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me , the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you .

Shut up," hissed the Marquess. "I chose it, you miserable, rouged-up idiots! Why shouldn't I have a boy's title? People listen to boys! They fear boys—they fear a King and hope a Queen will show them mercy! Why shouldn't I be a Marquess? I rule the world! I say how things are pronounced! I say what belongs to boys and what doesn't!

I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.

I will tell you what I think. I think kings happen because some people have an empty place inside them that wants to be full and it will do anything to feel full and the first thing that makes it feel the opposite of empty it will chase forever and ever. And the weirdest thing about this place is that obeying fills it up, but making someone else obey makes it slosh up and splash all over the floor.

Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.

God is another way of talking about the power to break things, that's all. When you mean to break a goblet or a bone, well, just do it and be done. But when the things to be broken get big enough you have to start talking about God.

And, at night, in a narrow bed in her old room, Mary Morevna would hold Ivan tight inside of her, demanding his obedience to her, demanding that his soul be ripped out and emptied into her.

When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.

Mabry Muscat looked pleadingly at Mallow, and she could not understand why they all obeyed him -- except that of course the King could eat them, and of course he was King, and did not people everywhere do more or less as they were told when someone with a crown did the telling?

It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.

You took my will." "So all seductions go. One will presented to another, wrapped in a bow. The question is always who is to take and who is to give.

People are clocks who think they wind themselves.

All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.

Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don't make it yours.

Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.

For all that they love to make kings, John's folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.